Lysator Explained

Lysator
Location: Linköping, Sweden
Formation:1973
Leader Title:Projects
Leader Name:Project Runeberg
LysKOM
Elfwood
NannyMUD
Sprite Animation Toolkit
Website:lysator.liu.se

Lysator is an academic computer club at Linköping University, Sweden with almost 600 members. It is an independent non-profit society, separate from the students' union and the faculties of the university.

History

Lysator was founded on 29 March 1973. The first computer used at Lysator was a Datasaab D21, delivered to Lysator on 25 May 1973. Later in the decade, members of Lysator developed and initially built a microcomputer, the LYS-16, which was advanced for its time due to its 16-bit word size.[1]

In February 1993, Lysator put up the first web server in Sweden, among the first 10 - 15 in the world.

On 30 July 2010, Lysator began migrating to a new 3U home rack,[2] increasing their available storage space from 700GB to 13TB.[3]

Projects hosted by Lysator

Lysator has been a starting ground for many notable projects, some of which have since become independent from the club:

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The History of Lysator - The Lys-16 Microcomputer. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/19991108231740/http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/lys16.html. 1999-11-08.
  2. Web site: Hemdisk och nätverk › Rootgruppen . 2010-08-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110826092313/http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/08/02/hemdisk-och-natverk/ . 2011-08-26 .
  3. Web site: Migrering hemdisk 30-31 juli › Rootgruppen . 2010-08-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110826092230/http://root.blogs.lysator.liu.se/2010/07/13/migrering-hemdisk-30-31-juli/ . 2011-08-26 .
  4. Web site: History - Pike Programming Language.